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4.5
Peter Marshall presents the Northern side with great energy and bombast. The holes in his argument are large and numerous, but he just talks louder and demeans his opponent. For over a year of the war, Lincoln emphasized that the objective was not to destroy slavery. He wanted to limit it, but the war was to prevent Southern Independence. When he declared that slavery was ended in the Confederacy, he said that was because he couldn't win the war otherwise. The respected historian Gary Gallagher has said that the Union soldiers wouldn't have fought to end slavery. By the time of the Emancipation Proclamation, many Union soldiers had realized that a black soldier could absorb a bullet just as well as a white. Steven Wilkins does a great job of telling the real story for the South and making a monkey out of Marshall, who should be ashamed of his rudeness and lack of logic.
